And experience new things in new places (well maybe not new things but definitely new places) is something I am always grateful for. New things create new neural pathways - fantastic exercise for our brains!
If you or your team would benefit from some brain gym, please get in touch (but not for the next week or so please as I'm working on mine).
"Oh-I, oh-I, oh-I..."
My clients tell me that before they are able to process change, something else happens, then another thing. In addition to a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) environment there is more planned change that ever before: multiple consecutive structure changes, budget cuts, senior leadership changes, local and central government changes, and the list goes on. With each planned change comes rework, upheaval, changing priorities and ineffective use of resources.
The emotional impact of change is significant too. My clients tell me change fatigue impacts their mental and physical health, job satisfaction declines, and relationships and family suffer.
Focusing on what you CAN control and influence helps! For example:
· identifying unhelpful systemic issues and communicating them with the right people,
· influencing decision makers,
· managing personal and collective energy,
· creating supportive problem solving and decision making skills,
· increasing individual and combined team resilience,
· leading others through change,
· and most importantly, finding ways to celebrate and share your amazing successes.
If your team is suffering from change fatigue, I would love to have a chat. Please get in touch or see www.growtobe.com. Reduce the pain!
Sharing key insights from my book with Massey University MBA students last week as part of the “leadership and teamwork” paper. I talked about the rationale for team coaching, rapid teaming (thanks Prof. David Clutterbuck for allowing me to borrow the term), and the important role of leader as coach - all through the lens of the real life case study. Team Coaching for Organisational Development is on their reading list too!
Team Coaching for Organisational Development is useful for human resource professionals, change managers, leaders, teams, coaches, supervisors and students studying any of these areas.
Get your copy at www.growtobe.co.nz
